ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, November 26

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at Blind Willie’s! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 27

Get adventurous as the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) at 7pm! Get down with the Middle Ages with a screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones’ MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at The Plaza Theater at 10pm! The Fox Theatre presents IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS THE MUSICAL, through Dec. 1! Get folksy with Harry Hudson at Vinyl! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get super with a 40th Anniversary screening of Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN (1978) at theaters across Atlanta at 3pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blind Willie’s gets the blues with Bob Page! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 28

Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS (1963) at 7:30pm! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Have a monsterific holiday with a screening of Joe Dante’s GREMLINS (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Catch a screening of Richard Curtis’ LOVE ACTUALLY (2003) at Cobb CineBistro at 7pm! Miles Jaye jazzes it up at City Winery! The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Catch a tasty double feature with Gabriel Axel’s BABETTE’S FEAST (1987) and Juzo Itami’s TAMPOPO (1985) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Shoot your eye out and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 3:30pm/7:45pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Blind Willie’s rocks out with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 29

Make your way to The Plaza Theater for the Y’allywood Film Festival, running through Dec. 1! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Rachmaninov Revisited at 8pm! Rock on down to the Clermont Lounge for Beer & Lounging with The Rock*a*teens and more! Folk rock it up with Dead King Cotton and Alex & Todd at the Red Light Café! Funk it up with Moses Mo at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out at The Star Bar with the Highriders, Bad Friend and JJ & The Hustlers! Get some soul with Dave Hollister at City Winery! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Lost Dog Street Band, South Hill Banks and Broken String Band! Make your way to Venkman’s for Ladies of ‘60s Soul! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns at Blind Willie’s!Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 30

Elton John brings his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour to the State Farm Arena (formerly Phillips Arena)! Runnin’ Down a Dream pays tribute to Tom Petty at Smith’s Olde Bar with Clashinista paying tribute to The Clash! Boogie down with DJ Saasha Foo at Avondale Towne Cinema! Or make your way to Mary’s for their 20th Anniversary Party! The Plaza Theater gores it up with screenings of John Grissmer’s BLOOD RAGE (1987) and John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982), through Dec. 6! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for the Queerly Beloved Revue! Rock out at The Earl with Mercyland Historical Abstract, The Gotobeds, Air-Sea Dolphin, Honey Radar and 86! Delta Moon gets rootsy at Eddie’s Attic! The Star Bar rocks out with Sash the Bash, The Tenders, Smoota and Chrome Castle! Folk rock it up with Don McLean at City Winery! Spend the night with Bobby McFerrin at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Sundogs present The Tom Petty Show with Pony League at Terminal West! Boogie down to Park Tavern for a Throwback to the ‘90s party! Make your way to Aisle 5 for a night with LaGoons, Displace and Kenosha Kid! Get some retro soul with Wren and the Wravens during their Merry Funkin’ Christmas show at Venkman’s! Northside Tavern gets the rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 1

Rock out with Dragon Sound as the Y’allywood Film Festival presents a 30th Anniversary screening of Y.K. Kim/Park Woo Sang’s MIAMI CONNECTION (1987) at The Plaza Theater, with Kool Kat Brian Lonano’s BFF GIRLS (2018) at 7pm! Rock out with the Richard Thompson Electric Trio at the Variety Playhouse! The Atlanta Funk Society gets down at Venkman’s! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Rachmaninov Revisited at 8pm! Catch a screening of Jonathan Demme’s PHILADELPHIA (1993) at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18! Geek it up at the Infinite Realities Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting! Spend A Victorian Holiday at the Historic Oakland Cemetery from 10-4pm, with a Holiday Tour of Eternal Homes, carols, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas”, hot cocoa and more! You won’t want to miss Avondale Estate’s Jingle Mingle Mile Artists Market, from 11am – 7pm! The Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30! For the rebellious ones in your lives, you’ll want to make it to Allied Ink Tattoo’s Punk Rock Flea Market, from 4-9pm! Elton John brings his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour to the State Farm Arena (formerly Phillips Arena)! The Red Light Café gets down and dirty with the Dirty Dolls Burlesque Revue! Get rocked at The Earl with Magnapop, Elf Power, Motherfucker, Black to Comm (MC5 tribute) and The Rock*a*teens! Get some soul with Diane Durrett & Soul Suga at Eddie’s Attic! Garage rock it up with White Animals at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down with W8ING4UFOs at Kavarna! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for AN EVENING WITH LUTHER & WHITNEY! Rock out with Ghost Light and Orange Constant at Terminal West! Spend the night with Anna Moon at Deep End! Get down with Cody Matlock at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get down with Albert Castiglia at Blind Willie’s! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 2

Catch a screening of Ken Hughes’ CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) at The Plaza Theater! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at 12pm! Or catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Nora Ephron’s SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993) at theaters across Atlanta at 1pm/4pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Make your way to the Red Light Café for The Throne Room: A Royal Tease Experience! Bluegrass it up with The Cleverlys at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for The Celtic Company’s Gala Holiday Concert! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.